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ilovemuze 
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Posted: Nov 26 2012 at 6:36pm |
the same thing happened to me after I decided to leave my weave in for two months  i was so sad when I just saw clumps and clumps of my hair falling out in the shower. Sometimes I try and separate my hair into sections when I wash it just so I wont have a big tangled mess
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Malexandre
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Posted: Nov 24 2012 at 4:57pm |
Have u been stretching your relaxer? try to do the all process in braid. Wash/DC you hair in braid . I detangle first, with a big comb with oils,conditioner, then put my hair in braid ,wash,DC,wash, let dry in braid. I only remove the braid when my hair is dry. I v noticed that detangling my hair while its socking wet doesn't work for me.
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Posted: Nov 23 2012 at 3:50am |
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Yup. NEVER wash your hair without detangling after braid removal. The shed hairs and knots will be murder. At the beginning of this year I got a little lazy with the detangling and left one section in the middle of my head tangled. Washed my hair, and lost a huge clump in the middle when I tried to comb it after it dried. Now I have a patch of straggly, uneven, rough hair where the knots ripped out as a reminder. Boy did I learn my lesson.
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Posted: Oct 30 2012 at 10:56am |
 2coreysluvum wrote:
sasha299 wrote:
First don't worry, it can be undone. Something similar happened to me and I did the following - I don't know what did the trick
1. I used my combination of oils - olive, JBCO, Sunflower, etc to soak the hair. Really saturate it.
2. without washing out the oils I saturated the hair with conditioner with slip - silicon mix and Tresseme. I put so much in there that my whole head was white. If it started disappearing I put more.
3. After letting it sit for a little while I started using my fingers ONLY to gently detangle from the ends. NO COMB or BRUSH. I started with a little section and worked my way from the ends to the roots of each section.
4. After each section was detangled I lightly twisted it - making sure it was still saturated with the conditioner.
5. After detangling my whole head I rinsed out the entire mixture because I could not find my comb BUT I recommend using a wide teeth comb and gently combing from ends to roots to remove the shed hair.
You can do it. Just don't let frustration build.
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All of this and remember to TAKE YOUR TIME! I cant stress that enough. the last thing you wanna do in a moment of frustration is rake through your hair and rip it out...major set back! If you can, grab a chair and set infront of your mirror with some tea to sip on and take your time detangling. Good luck and update us when you are done.
eta: Oh yes one other thing that helps me after the dc of oil and conditioner is an ACV rinse...make my hair just lay down and behave...hth |
shoot it's like you're describing what happened to my hair as though you'd witnessed it first hand lol that's exactly what happened to me. i was trying to take out minitwists following two washes. big mistake- i shouldn't have put water on them in the first darn place.  but since i did, i decided to address my matted roots by takin them down. twenty mins. in and i got so angry with the tiny little twigs on my head that i grabbed a comb (i knew this was gonna be awful before i even did that because i'm a finger detangler, period. you know something's gone wrong when i'm reachin for a comb!) I started tearing through my hair with that comb so hard that i had breakage falling like rain shower all over my living room couch. it was horrible. i didn't even care though because i just hated my hair so much. all that BSB hair gone down the drain in that one session- so promptly the next hour i grabbed my shears and took off 4 inches because that was my estimate of how much breakage i'd dealt lengthwise. haven't looked back since. now i've stayed away from minitwists AND from combs, and my hair's doing so much better. little breakage to none and no splits. halleluyah! 
oh...but regarding your matting? i would just say let it soak in condish, maybe even sit under a steamer or whatnot, and handle your hair in sections, going through section by section, strand by strand gently taking strands out of the knotted areas so that you don't break them.
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Posted: Oct 30 2012 at 10:00am |
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hey, want to check some more about matting hair ? here's some cool feuilleton http://slaweklondon.co.uk/news.php?item.41
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Posted: Nov 08 2011 at 3:09pm |
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Buy you some kinky curly knot today and seperate your hair with your hands. See if that works.
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Posted: Oct 30 2011 at 10:49pm |
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When I went thru this I sprayed a bottle of hair detangler on my hair, and when I said sprayed a bottle, I SPRAYED A BOTTLE!!! let that sit while the conditioner is there too and gently detangle like everyone said
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Posted: Oct 28 2011 at 3:37pm |
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Yay you!
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Posted: Oct 28 2011 at 3:13pm |
It matted up because you probably didn't remove all of your shed hair...
that is a crucial step after removing any kind of old style...
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Posted: Oct 28 2011 at 3:10pm |
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Thanks so much ladies! I did the oil w/ conditioner mix.Luckily for me, my MIL detangled it for me. All the matting & tangling came out, and I didn't lose any hair. Thank you!!
@Eboni, my hair was not tangled before I washed it. it tangled when I conditioned it. That's why I was so confused. I dont know why that happens to my hair.
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